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ijnWnBflK9HSHaSSBpSShjgS& SyimarjjMB kBnroowadwbeayyo. nAdsthCeoslutomrbesia'asndmtarmaffsitcrejaemt, sw? eTaoll gsehtopbeiht, inwdatlhkeitcaanndopdyriavneditw. iBnduotwwhdaitspdloayws, e WBaHmjmBmHBBHBK9BISMSSSF-"- Ww: BmBBKmSSjBtSKK& wBStSSSf3SIfSSSimBOHS& AStTWa4. ymwBBnfkLl tiBbnlirrgaoe'astehdmrwMooauiyssgsthovfuraaorlniumadanbPilrneretopepvrorpirodrtpeeeenrtisrcnteygs. eRctToothaoudanwtttymoorakeHnailndtattsctSlietftyaraerlnlpeitrtnoogpleetaahrntreynahtarihenseatdoerttcyahoxanotofrmeiCncicoocll uudadmsne. bdsiAass. onodcmIitaeimtl omiemfaenCpatoanllcutemtaifno--- f--- tSPfHllBl'fVtlfSlHiBI9HfBlHBHEflHHBHHl& 5BJEBBgSiSPBSgbJFaRBB '---
rt 5s: TB8wif WKn terviewing numerous Columbians past and present. The result of the team's labors is BBaHMBjfaBPCr . , Ei
76th Year No. 129 Good Morning! It's Sunday, February 12, 1984 6 Sections 54 Pages 50 Cents
The verdict:
not guilty
But man who
was accused says,
' I was wronged'
By Scott Nishfinura," --
Missourian st$ t writer
" ' ' V
Sometime bade in 1978, as Jim Abema- th- y
recalls, the woman came to his
trailer. They were neighbors in the mobile
home park but hardly knew each other.
Linda said some of the pipesio her trail
er were clogged. She asked her neighbor to
fixthem.
Abemathy, a big man, obliged. He'd
done odd jobs for friends before, and this
would be nothing different
She was a 29- year-- old divorcee who had
two children and a job as a waitress to try
and make ends meet Abemathy was a
University junior in industrial education
and the product of a rural Missouri family.
Linda thanked her neighbor for the
work. Shortly later, she moved from the
trailer park. The next time Abemathy saw
the woman, he says, was three years later
in a courtroom. James C. Abemathy, 68
Columns IV Trailer Court, had been
charged with rape, sodomy and burglary
in three attacks that occurred in 1981.
Linda wasa victim. c z c
It had appeared promising to police and
prosecutors at first Abemathy had been
identified by three rape victims, and he
lived in the same trailer park as two of
them.
As the investigation unfolded, however,
it became evident that the wrong man
might have been arrested.
The victims weren't adamant in identify-ing
Abemathy. Police had added him as a
suspect after someone said he looked like
the man in a composite drawing an 11- year- - old
victim gave police.
The two women and the girl also had de-scribed
their attackers as between 5 feet 7
inches tall and stocky and 5 feet 10 inches
tall and fat.
laaaaaaBaalHHHBHNr Vlka T. ,3aalaHaBaaaHaaaaaaVi
Tammy ftesler
Jim Abemathy and his dog, Chet, on the back porch of Abernathy's new
house. Above left: A composite sketch of the man sought in connection
with the November 1981 rape of an 11- year-- old girl. The sketch was com-posed
by the victim.
Friends call Abemathy " Bear." He is 6
feet 1 inch tall and weighs 250 pounds
Finally, a fingerprint and pubic hair re-covered
at two of the rape scenes didn't
match Abernathy's.
Despite the weak evidence, prosecutors
pursued the cases.
" The victims' identifications were weak,
i
but they were there," says Cullen Cline,
Abernathy's attorney. " The prosecutors
really hadno choice."
Police echo the thought Prosecutors
have declined comment on the cases
Says Columbia Police Major OW
See LACK, Page 5A
New Soviet leader
remains in doubt
Power struggle may be in progress
New York Times
MOSCOW Political andmihtary leaders
Saturday led thousands of mourners in pay-ing
respects at the garlanded bier of Yun V.
Andropov
Movements of black limousines around the
Kremlin and Communist Party headquar-ters
indicated that high- lev- el meetings were
in progress that could determine who will
succeed Andropov as general secretary of
the party , a post that automatically makes
its occupant the country ' s pre- emine- nt lead-er
Soviet sources indicated that no announce-ment
was likely before a meeting of the Cen-tral
Committee, probably on Monday
Some Western diplomats said they saw the
delay as a sign that a power struggle might
be in progress
Konstanun U. Chernehko, the second- rankin- g
party secretary who is chairman of the
funeral commission, led the nine other Moscow-
- based members of the ruling Politburo
in a ceremonial appearance at the colo-nnaded
House of Unions, where Andropov
lay in state in an open casket
Their vigil marked the beginning of four
days of mourning for Andropov, 69, who died
Thursday.
Although the 300 members of the Central
Committee have the formal authority to
make the appointment, the actual choice of
the man who will become the country's sixth
leader since the Bolshevik Revolution would
ordinarily rest w ith the Politburo, which now
has 12 full, voting members.
When Leonid I. Brezhnev died 15 months
ago, the Politburo settled on Andropov with-in
two days.
This time, Western diplomats see the po-tential
for more maneuvering. Although An-dropov's
appointment as chairman for
Brezhnev's funeral was followed by his
choice as party leader, the diplomats were
not convinced that the precedent would be
Funeral Page 3A
followed m the case of Chernenko, whose
age, 72, would make him unlikely to serve
more than a few y ears
After the 15- mo- nth tenure of Andropov,
some diplomats said they thought the proba-bilities
lay with someone in his 50s or 60s.
who would offer the prospect of a longer ten-ure
They also suggested that there was a
chance that Chernenko would be hurt by his
close ties with Brezhnev, his long- tim- e men-tor,
whose relative passi lty in domestic af-fairs
came in for criticism after his death
Other diplomats thought age and semontv
were still the principal attributes of a poten-tial
Soviet leader According to this iew,
Chernenko, who is of Russian Siberian peas-ant
stock, would be attractive to older mem-bers
of the Politburo concerned for their own
positions and could also win support from
younger members interested in having an-other
shot at the leadership before too long
Apart from Chernenko, the names most
actively canvassed among diplomats were
those of the two other men who have seats on
both of the two key bodies the Politburo,
which makes policy , and the party Secretari-at,
which carries it out
They are Mikhail S Gorbachev, 52, report-edly
Andropov's closest ally with responsibi-lity
for agriculture, who recently became in-volved
in the job of shuffling regional
leaders, and Gngory V Romanov, the Le- ning- raa
leader for 12 y ears, who joined the
Secretariat only last summer and is thought
to have strong ties to the military
As the deliberations continued, the stage
was set for a funeral in Red Square at noon
Tuesday Andropov is expected to be buned
near Brezhnev and other major figures in-terred
between the Lenin Mausoleum and
the Kremlin wall.
Shells explode, fights rage
as crowds flee from Beirut
BEIRUT, Lebanon ( UPI) Shells from
clashes between the Lebanese army and
Moslem militias exploded near a crowd of
people fleeing west Beirut Saturday and a
Lebanese- America- n girl was shot in the
chaotic evacuation
The fighung disrupted the second day of a
mass evacuation of Americans and other for-eigners
to- Cypr- us
Hundreds of Americans have been flown
out of the besieged capital. The Moslem
western half of Beirut is now under the con-trol
of Moslem rebel militias Street fighting
rages and civil services have broken down.
Police sources estimate that 15 people
were lolled and about 50 others wounded on
Friday and Saturday They said the week's
death toll was approaching 450.
Israel's reaction Page 7A
People gathered for evacuation were
rushed into nearby buildings after the 15- year-- old
girl was shot, said UPI reporter
Hala Khoury, who witnessed the incident
A dozen or so Druze militiamen, who were
to protect the evacuation, rushed to nearby
rooftops in search of a sniper but no one was
found
The shooting came about an hour after wit-nesses
said two shells crashed into the Med-iterranean
" not more than 50 yards" from
where the civilians were being processed for
evacuation. Other shells exploded near the
coastal road where they were gathering
New drunken driving law falls short of intention
By Karan Eteknwyer
Missourian stall writer
A 19- year--
old college sophomore driving
home from a friend's house started the
month as a police statistic. Scott Welman,
2401 W. Broadway, No. 807, wis arrested and
charged with driving while intoxicated at
1: 15 am. Feb. 1. His blood- alcoh- ol content
was .15 percent
, Under" Missouri's jiew drunken driving
law, which took effect last September, any-one
caught with more than .13 percent blood
alcohol is subject to immediate license sus-pension.
But Welman will continue to drive- everyda- y
for at least the next month.
When it was adopted, Missouri's adminis-trative
revocation law was hailed by legis-lators
aatough and swift Yet, in application
the lav has fallen short of the legislators'
major intentions andgtowing praise.
The administrative suspension rule pro-vides
for a 15- da- y period during which the
person arrested can apply for an administra-tive
hearing. Welman will continue to drive
because be has applied for such a hearing.
He is allowed to keep his license until the- cas- e
is resolved.
Should ' he lose the hearing, Welman can
appeal the decision to a circuit court. The
whole process takes an average of 90 days.
Anyone charged with DWI, whether a first- tim- e
offender like Welman or a second-- or
third- tun- e offender, retains his driving priv-ileges
during the process.
Legislators wanted the new law to make it
tough on DWI offenders by immediately pull-ing
them off the streets. But that hasnt hap-pened.
Instead, the offender is allowed to
continue dnvng until the hearing procedure
is completed. '
" The intent of the law is to give the police
an extra tool to more quickly remove drunk
drivers from the road," says state Rep.
Chns Kelly, D- Columb- ia, who actively sup-ported
the bill.
But, according to the Missouri Department
of Revenue, which handles the hearings,
only one out of three offenders faces a li-cense
suspension for 30 days without an ad-ministrative
hearing.
In Columbia, 132 people who were arrested
T
for DWIs since the law went into effect have
applied for administrative hearings. Of the
101 hearings held thus far, 11 people have
won. Of the 90 who lost, 41 percent have ap-pealed
to a circuit court
Kelly says it is too early to judge the law's
effect or make significant evaluations be-cause
the figures represent the first several
- -- months of the law's administration.
" In other states with this type of law, the
administrative appeals drop sharply to 9 to
13 percent when it becomes clear that
theyre gong to enforce the law," Kelly
says.
By requiring a different burden of proof
than criminal DWI trials, the administrative
hearings were intended to make it easier to
prove andsuspenda driver's license.
In the opinion of Boone ' County Assistant
. Prosecuting Attorney Rusty Antel, the law
was poorly drafted and has done the opposite
of what legislators intended. Often a person
will be acquitted on administrative charges
only to be convicted on similar charges at a
criminal trial later.
Under the law, m an administrative hear-ing
the hearing examiner must show evi-dence
that mere was probable cause to be
lieve the person was driving when stopped
by police. The examiner also must prove the
person driving the vehicle had a blood- alcoh- ol
content of 13 percent or higher.
In a criminal trial, the prosecutor must
prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the
person was operating a motor vehicle while
intoxicated. A blood- alcoh- ol content of .10
percent or more can be presented as- evi- de- nce.
Despite the intention to make justice swift
for drunken drivers, the DWI law has not
shortened the time between arrest and li-cense
suspension or revocation.
" It's a tremendous waste of time and it's
no good," Antel says " The administrative
hearings have in many cases taken longer to
dispose of than criminal cases."
Offenders are likely to lose their licenses
for the same amount of tune or less at the
administrative hearing than at the criminal
trial. For a first- tim- e offender or one with no
prior offenses in the last five years, a sus-pension
in an administrative hearing results
in a required 90- da- y license suspension.
If a driver has refused a breath test, or
had a DWI or blood alcohol content convic-tion
in the last five years, he loses h license
i
for a year with the suspension
A criminal conviction can include jail sen-tences
for second-- and third- tim- e offenders
License suspensions, when issued, usually
are for a similar length of time or longer
than that of the administrative suspension.
If a person is convicted both under the new
law and in a criminal hearing, the time spent
under administrative suspension is sub-tracted
from suspension time mandated by a
criminal conviction
Another negative side to the new law is its
cost
For every DWI case, police officers and
clerks in the records department must fill
out extensive paperworks As a result, the
city is left with police officers doing paper-work
insteadof patrolling the city.
But Kelly defends the new law. He says he
believes the police officers and the people of
Missouri want stringent DWI laws.
As far as Welman is concerned, the law
has had its intended effect " I definitely
think the law is tough enough on drunk driv-ers,"
he says. " But the new administrative
suspension could be better publicized."
i

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.
ggjl 1 WHO OWNS BROADWAY? I gaffi
ijnWnBflK9HSHaSSBpSShjgS& SyimarjjMB kBnroowadwbeayyo. nAdsthCeoslutomrbesia'asndmtarmaffsitcrejaemt, sw? eTaoll gsehtopbeiht, inwdatlhkeitcaanndopdyriavneditw. iBnduotwwhdaitspdloayws, e WBaHmjmBmHBBHBK9BISMSSSF-"- Ww: BmBBKmSSjBtSKK& wBStSSSf3SIfSSSimBOHS& AStTWa4. ymwBBnfkLl tiBbnlirrgaoe'astehdmrwMooauiyssgsthovfuraaorlniumadanbPilrneretopepvrorpirodrtpeeeenrtisrcnteygs. eRctToothaoudanwtttymoorakeHnailndtattsctSlietftyaraerlnlpeitrtnoogpleetaahrntreynahtarihenseatdoerttcyahoxanotofrmeiCncicoocll uudadmsne. bdsiAass. onodcmIitaeimtl omiemfaenCpatoanllcutemtaifno--- f--- tSPfHllBl'fVtlfSlHiBI9HfBlHBHEflHHBHHl& 5BJEBBgSiSPBSgbJFaRBB '---
rt 5s: TB8wif WKn terviewing numerous Columbians past and present. The result of the team's labors is BBaHMBjfaBPCr . , Ei
76th Year No. 129 Good Morning! It's Sunday, February 12, 1984 6 Sections 54 Pages 50 Cents
The verdict:
not guilty
But man who
was accused says,
' I was wronged'
By Scott Nishfinura," --
Missourian st$ t writer
" ' ' V
Sometime bade in 1978, as Jim Abema- th- y
recalls, the woman came to his
trailer. They were neighbors in the mobile
home park but hardly knew each other.
Linda said some of the pipesio her trail
er were clogged. She asked her neighbor to
fixthem.
Abemathy, a big man, obliged. He'd
done odd jobs for friends before, and this
would be nothing different
She was a 29- year-- old divorcee who had
two children and a job as a waitress to try
and make ends meet Abemathy was a
University junior in industrial education
and the product of a rural Missouri family.
Linda thanked her neighbor for the
work. Shortly later, she moved from the
trailer park. The next time Abemathy saw
the woman, he says, was three years later
in a courtroom. James C. Abemathy, 68
Columns IV Trailer Court, had been
charged with rape, sodomy and burglary
in three attacks that occurred in 1981.
Linda wasa victim. c z c
It had appeared promising to police and
prosecutors at first Abemathy had been
identified by three rape victims, and he
lived in the same trailer park as two of
them.
As the investigation unfolded, however,
it became evident that the wrong man
might have been arrested.
The victims weren't adamant in identify-ing
Abemathy. Police had added him as a
suspect after someone said he looked like
the man in a composite drawing an 11- year- - old
victim gave police.
The two women and the girl also had de-scribed
their attackers as between 5 feet 7
inches tall and stocky and 5 feet 10 inches
tall and fat.
laaaaaaBaalHHHBHNr Vlka T. ,3aalaHaBaaaHaaaaaaVi
Tammy ftesler
Jim Abemathy and his dog, Chet, on the back porch of Abernathy's new
house. Above left: A composite sketch of the man sought in connection
with the November 1981 rape of an 11- year-- old girl. The sketch was com-posed
by the victim.
Friends call Abemathy " Bear." He is 6
feet 1 inch tall and weighs 250 pounds
Finally, a fingerprint and pubic hair re-covered
at two of the rape scenes didn't
match Abernathy's.
Despite the weak evidence, prosecutors
pursued the cases.
" The victims' identifications were weak,
i
but they were there," says Cullen Cline,
Abernathy's attorney. " The prosecutors
really hadno choice."
Police echo the thought Prosecutors
have declined comment on the cases
Says Columbia Police Major OW
See LACK, Page 5A
New Soviet leader
remains in doubt
Power struggle may be in progress
New York Times
MOSCOW Political andmihtary leaders
Saturday led thousands of mourners in pay-ing
respects at the garlanded bier of Yun V.
Andropov
Movements of black limousines around the
Kremlin and Communist Party headquar-ters
indicated that high- lev- el meetings were
in progress that could determine who will
succeed Andropov as general secretary of
the party , a post that automatically makes
its occupant the country ' s pre- emine- nt lead-er
Soviet sources indicated that no announce-ment
was likely before a meeting of the Cen-tral
Committee, probably on Monday
Some Western diplomats said they saw the
delay as a sign that a power struggle might
be in progress
Konstanun U. Chernehko, the second- rankin- g
party secretary who is chairman of the
funeral commission, led the nine other Moscow-
- based members of the ruling Politburo
in a ceremonial appearance at the colo-nnaded
House of Unions, where Andropov
lay in state in an open casket
Their vigil marked the beginning of four
days of mourning for Andropov, 69, who died
Thursday.
Although the 300 members of the Central
Committee have the formal authority to
make the appointment, the actual choice of
the man who will become the country's sixth
leader since the Bolshevik Revolution would
ordinarily rest w ith the Politburo, which now
has 12 full, voting members.
When Leonid I. Brezhnev died 15 months
ago, the Politburo settled on Andropov with-in
two days.
This time, Western diplomats see the po-tential
for more maneuvering. Although An-dropov's
appointment as chairman for
Brezhnev's funeral was followed by his
choice as party leader, the diplomats were
not convinced that the precedent would be
Funeral Page 3A
followed m the case of Chernenko, whose
age, 72, would make him unlikely to serve
more than a few y ears
After the 15- mo- nth tenure of Andropov,
some diplomats said they thought the proba-bilities
lay with someone in his 50s or 60s.
who would offer the prospect of a longer ten-ure
They also suggested that there was a
chance that Chernenko would be hurt by his
close ties with Brezhnev, his long- tim- e men-tor,
whose relative passi lty in domestic af-fairs
came in for criticism after his death
Other diplomats thought age and semontv
were still the principal attributes of a poten-tial
Soviet leader According to this iew,
Chernenko, who is of Russian Siberian peas-ant
stock, would be attractive to older mem-bers
of the Politburo concerned for their own
positions and could also win support from
younger members interested in having an-other
shot at the leadership before too long
Apart from Chernenko, the names most
actively canvassed among diplomats were
those of the two other men who have seats on
both of the two key bodies the Politburo,
which makes policy , and the party Secretari-at,
which carries it out
They are Mikhail S Gorbachev, 52, report-edly
Andropov's closest ally with responsibi-lity
for agriculture, who recently became in-volved
in the job of shuffling regional
leaders, and Gngory V Romanov, the Le- ning- raa
leader for 12 y ears, who joined the
Secretariat only last summer and is thought
to have strong ties to the military
As the deliberations continued, the stage
was set for a funeral in Red Square at noon
Tuesday Andropov is expected to be buned
near Brezhnev and other major figures in-terred
between the Lenin Mausoleum and
the Kremlin wall.
Shells explode, fights rage
as crowds flee from Beirut
BEIRUT, Lebanon ( UPI) Shells from
clashes between the Lebanese army and
Moslem militias exploded near a crowd of
people fleeing west Beirut Saturday and a
Lebanese- America- n girl was shot in the
chaotic evacuation
The fighung disrupted the second day of a
mass evacuation of Americans and other for-eigners
to- Cypr- us
Hundreds of Americans have been flown
out of the besieged capital. The Moslem
western half of Beirut is now under the con-trol
of Moslem rebel militias Street fighting
rages and civil services have broken down.
Police sources estimate that 15 people
were lolled and about 50 others wounded on
Friday and Saturday They said the week's
death toll was approaching 450.
Israel's reaction Page 7A
People gathered for evacuation were
rushed into nearby buildings after the 15- year-- old
girl was shot, said UPI reporter
Hala Khoury, who witnessed the incident
A dozen or so Druze militiamen, who were
to protect the evacuation, rushed to nearby
rooftops in search of a sniper but no one was
found
The shooting came about an hour after wit-nesses
said two shells crashed into the Med-iterranean
" not more than 50 yards" from
where the civilians were being processed for
evacuation. Other shells exploded near the
coastal road where they were gathering
New drunken driving law falls short of intention
By Karan Eteknwyer
Missourian stall writer
A 19- year--
old college sophomore driving
home from a friend's house started the
month as a police statistic. Scott Welman,
2401 W. Broadway, No. 807, wis arrested and
charged with driving while intoxicated at
1: 15 am. Feb. 1. His blood- alcoh- ol content
was .15 percent
, Under" Missouri's jiew drunken driving
law, which took effect last September, any-one
caught with more than .13 percent blood
alcohol is subject to immediate license sus-pension.
But Welman will continue to drive- everyda- y
for at least the next month.
When it was adopted, Missouri's adminis-trative
revocation law was hailed by legis-lators
aatough and swift Yet, in application
the lav has fallen short of the legislators'
major intentions andgtowing praise.
The administrative suspension rule pro-vides
for a 15- da- y period during which the
person arrested can apply for an administra-tive
hearing. Welman will continue to drive
because be has applied for such a hearing.
He is allowed to keep his license until the- cas- e
is resolved.
Should ' he lose the hearing, Welman can
appeal the decision to a circuit court. The
whole process takes an average of 90 days.
Anyone charged with DWI, whether a first- tim- e
offender like Welman or a second-- or
third- tun- e offender, retains his driving priv-ileges
during the process.
Legislators wanted the new law to make it
tough on DWI offenders by immediately pull-ing
them off the streets. But that hasnt hap-pened.
Instead, the offender is allowed to
continue dnvng until the hearing procedure
is completed. '
" The intent of the law is to give the police
an extra tool to more quickly remove drunk
drivers from the road," says state Rep.
Chns Kelly, D- Columb- ia, who actively sup-ported
the bill.
But, according to the Missouri Department
of Revenue, which handles the hearings,
only one out of three offenders faces a li-cense
suspension for 30 days without an ad-ministrative
hearing.
In Columbia, 132 people who were arrested
T
for DWIs since the law went into effect have
applied for administrative hearings. Of the
101 hearings held thus far, 11 people have
won. Of the 90 who lost, 41 percent have ap-pealed
to a circuit court
Kelly says it is too early to judge the law's
effect or make significant evaluations be-cause
the figures represent the first several
- -- months of the law's administration.
" In other states with this type of law, the
administrative appeals drop sharply to 9 to
13 percent when it becomes clear that
theyre gong to enforce the law," Kelly
says.
By requiring a different burden of proof
than criminal DWI trials, the administrative
hearings were intended to make it easier to
prove andsuspenda driver's license.
In the opinion of Boone ' County Assistant
. Prosecuting Attorney Rusty Antel, the law
was poorly drafted and has done the opposite
of what legislators intended. Often a person
will be acquitted on administrative charges
only to be convicted on similar charges at a
criminal trial later.
Under the law, m an administrative hear-ing
the hearing examiner must show evi-dence
that mere was probable cause to be
lieve the person was driving when stopped
by police. The examiner also must prove the
person driving the vehicle had a blood- alcoh- ol
content of 13 percent or higher.
In a criminal trial, the prosecutor must
prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the
person was operating a motor vehicle while
intoxicated. A blood- alcoh- ol content of .10
percent or more can be presented as- evi- de- nce.
Despite the intention to make justice swift
for drunken drivers, the DWI law has not
shortened the time between arrest and li-cense
suspension or revocation.
" It's a tremendous waste of time and it's
no good," Antel says " The administrative
hearings have in many cases taken longer to
dispose of than criminal cases."
Offenders are likely to lose their licenses
for the same amount of tune or less at the
administrative hearing than at the criminal
trial. For a first- tim- e offender or one with no
prior offenses in the last five years, a sus-pension
in an administrative hearing results
in a required 90- da- y license suspension.
If a driver has refused a breath test, or
had a DWI or blood alcohol content convic-tion
in the last five years, he loses h license
i
for a year with the suspension
A criminal conviction can include jail sen-tences
for second-- and third- tim- e offenders
License suspensions, when issued, usually
are for a similar length of time or longer
than that of the administrative suspension.
If a person is convicted both under the new
law and in a criminal hearing, the time spent
under administrative suspension is sub-tracted
from suspension time mandated by a
criminal conviction
Another negative side to the new law is its
cost
For every DWI case, police officers and
clerks in the records department must fill
out extensive paperworks As a result, the
city is left with police officers doing paper-work
insteadof patrolling the city.
But Kelly defends the new law. He says he
believes the police officers and the people of
Missouri want stringent DWI laws.
As far as Welman is concerned, the law
has had its intended effect " I definitely
think the law is tough enough on drunk driv-ers,"
he says. " But the new administrative
suspension could be better publicized."
i